The assistant account planner is an entry-level position in account services, where the fundamental facets of account planning are learned. The assistant account planner provides support to the account planner by tracking job status, and assistant account planner supports the rest of the account team to which he/she is assigned. Bachelor's degree relating to advertising and marketing is required.

Requirements/Qualifications:

-Acts as the team administrative support and project manager.
-Manages job change orders and new job opening forms after being properly trained for accounts
-facilitates daily communication between account team, creative, and agency support services
-Works with clients to expedite job completion and keeps them updated on priorities.
-Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
-Works with traffic manager to develop schedules for each job and monitors progress against schedules
-Strong organizational skills
-Handles work orders, estimate requests, and assists in writing contract reports
-Assists with job development by communicating changes and keeping team informed
-Updates and issues client status reports (under supervisor's guidance)
-Works with supervisor and vendors to identify and source premiums
-Participates in daily status meetings
-Must be able to multitask
-Assists supervisor with projects as needed
-Attends all internal meeting related to assigned projects
-Reviews category literature and publications
-Provides competitive updates to internal team and clients
-Understands the impact of the growth of social media and web design as well as how enterprise-wide and internet technologies affect branding and advertising for leading companies.